I think what Jarod was referring to was the fact that not every distro uses /etc/modprobe.conf. The actual contents should be the same, but the actual file that is read may be different.
e.g., on my Gentoo-amd64 box, there is a generic file /etc/modules.conf which has the basic information in it and the top line says "Please do not edit this file directly" What you're supposed to do there is create a file inside of /etc/modules.d/ and put the contents there. So on my box I have a few files like /etc/modules.d/alsa, /etc/modules.d/ivtv, /etc/modules.d/nvidia, etc. The file /etc/modules.d/ivtv contains the contents from your quick setup. On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 17:39, Chris Kennedy wrote: > Oh, crazy, sounds like a complicated mess, well guess each person will > have to research their distro for any differences and then report back > and add to the documentation on what that distros changes to the > /etc/modprobe.conf file were (won't it just work though still, just add > onto the other configs in /etc/modprobe.d, like /etc/profile does). At > least it will work if everything is the simple standard of the modprobe > utilities unaltered by distros (which I just wanted a basic outline, figure > beyond that we'd get to specific and make it much too complicated and > hope a person knows their distro before installing outside-kernel modules). > > Thanks, > Chris > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 01:14:18PM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 31 March 2005 10:45, Chris Kennedy wrote: > > > It's in /etc/modprobe.conf where I put it, should say that in the Quick > > > Setup, that's the standard place to put them in 2.6. > > > > Actually, this varies from distribution to distribution. > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005, jerome lacoste wrote: > > > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Chris Kennedy wrote: > > > > > At least for me it will report that the tuner isn't set until I do > > > > > that, not sure why, but it does. > > > > > > > > do you put your module options in /etc/modprobe.d/something or > > > > /etc/modutils/something? > > > > > > > > It changed with Linux 2.6. I've seen so many people not updating their > > > > setup that half of the time that this was the reason for the options > > > > not being picked up at modprobe time. > > > > -- > > Jarod Wilson > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Demarc: A global provider of Threat Management Solutions. Download our HomeAdmin security software for free today! http://www.demarc.com/Info/Sentarus/hamr30 _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
